Snake Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ snakes from around the world — with venomous status, family, range, size, habitat, and how to tell look-alikes apart.
European Blind Snake
A small, worm-like burrowing snake with vestigial eyes, found across the Balkans and eastern Mediterranean, spending most of its life hidden underground.
European Cat Snake
A small, secretive, rear-fanged colubrid of the Mediterranean and Balkans, easily recognized by its vertical cat-like pupils.
European Adder
The only venomous snake native to the British Isles, with an enormous range spanning from western Europe to the Russian Far East, including areas within the Arctic Circle.
Beaked Blind Snake
A robust African blind snake with a distinctive hardened, beak-like snout adapted for digging.
Brahminy Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like blind snake and the only known snake species that reproduces entirely by parthenogenesis, spreading globally in nursery soil.
Texas Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake of Texas and northern Mexico, occasionally found in the nests of ants and termites that it feeds on.
Diard's Blind Snake
One of the larger blind snakes in Asia, a stout burrowing species found in forest soils and leaf litter.
Bibron's Blind Snake
A small, worm-like burrowing blind snake widespread across southern and eastern Africa, with vestigial eyes and a smooth, glossy body.
Desert Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like burrowing snake of the American Southwest deserts with vestigial eyes hidden beneath translucent scales.
Braminy Blind Snake
The world's most widely distributed snake species, a tiny, all-female burrower often mistaken for an earthworm and spread globally via potted plants.
Slender Blind Snake
A tiny, worm-like blind snake often mistaken for an earthworm, spread worldwide through the potted plant trade.
Western Blind Snake
A small, glossy, worm-like burrowing snake widespread across the deserts of the American Southwest, feeding almost exclusively on ants and termites.
Schlegel's Beaked Blind Snake
One of the largest blind snakes in the world, notable for its hardened, beak-like snout used to dig through hard African soils.
Flowerpot Snake
The world's most widely distributed snake species, a tiny worm-like blind snake spread globally through the potted plant trade.
Dwarf Snake
A small, plain-colored colubrid found across the eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, notable for its secretive habits and diminutive size.
Dice Snake
A highly aquatic European colubrid named for its checkerboard-like dorsal pattern, closely tied to rivers, lakes, and coastal wetlands.
Smooth Snake
A secretive, smooth-scaled European colubrid often mistaken for a viper, notable for constricting prey including other reptiles.
Leopard Snake
A strikingly patterned, harmless colubrid from southern Europe often regarded as one of the continent's most beautiful snakes.
Grass Snake
A common, harmless European snake closely tied to wetlands and known for its distinctive yellow neck collar and bluffing defensive display.
Cape Beaked Snake
A blunt-snouted, burrowing blind snake from southern Africa named for its distinctive beaked rostral scale.
Long-Nosed Worm Snake
A small, worm-like blind snake found in the leaf litter and soil of Trinidad and adjacent parts of northern South America.
Dwarf Beaked Snake
A tiny, patterned nocturnal snake of arid southern Africa, known for its spotted body and slightly upturned snout.
Aesculapian Snake
A large, agile European colubrid historically linked to the symbol of medicine, favoring warm woodlands and old buildings.
Asian Dwarf Snake
A small, secretive colubrid from the arid highlands of Iran and Central Asia, closely related to the European dwarf snakes of the genus Eirenis.